Suddenly can't open Kate anymore

Red Squirrel · 02-02-2015, 04:22 PM

So I had Kate open, edited a couple files, closed it, went to edit another file... wont launch. It just keeps spinning and spinning for ever in the task bar but never opens. If I try to open it from the start menu I get this error:

http://gal.redsquirrel.me/thumbs/lrg-2698-17__1_.png

I can still open it from command line, but that's kinda a pain if I want to actually open a file directly.

Why did this happen and how can I fix it? One second it worked now it broke. I don't get it.

Googling this seems to lead to tons of bug reports for specific updates, but I did not update anything. I was using it one minute, and next minute I could not launch it anymore.

Distro is Kubuntu 13.10. Thanks in advance!

jailbait · 02-02-2015, 04:42 PM

I suggest that you get some additional information:

Find out where Kate is located (Is it actually in /usr/bin?) with:
find /usr -iname "*kate*"

Check to see if kate is on your PATH with:
echo $PATH

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Steve Stites

Red Squirrel · 02-02-2015, 05:55 PM

Yep it's right location, I can't see why it would randomly changed right while I'm in the middle of using it.

Code:

ryan@falcon:~$ which kate
/usr/bin/kate
ryan@falcon:~$ 
ryan@falcon:~$ 
ryan@falcon:~$ echo $path

ryan@falcon:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
ryan@falcon:~$

A reboot seems to have fixed the issue, but still not right that it did that. Really need a way to prevent this from happening again as it's a pain rebooting when you're in middle of work.

jailbait · 02-02-2015, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red Squirrel

A reboot seems to have fixed the issue, but still not right that it did that. Really need a way to prevent this from happening again as it's a pain rebooting when you're in middle of work.

I am inclined to think that this is a KDE bug. Here are some possibilities:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/34874...h-usr-bin-kate

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...h-usr-bin-kate

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Steve Stites

Red Squirrel · 02-02-2015, 08:05 PM

Yeah found that too when I googled the error. Not much came of it though, such as a proper solution.